mason240

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by mason240 10y ago
I just read a comment on HN that calls for using government to force private companies to host and serve content against their will. Is this real life?
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by mason240 10y ago
It's strange because the people upset over this are the same people who are full steam ahead on censoring anything and anyone they don't like, waving that XKCD comic as battle flag.
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by mason240 10y ago
Right, but the problem with these partial systems is that they still require the driver to be fully attentive.
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by mason240 10y ago
When people drive on roads with guard rails, they don't think "hey, I have more time to send this text because the rail will stop my car from going over the cliff."
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by mason240 10y ago
I only gave one example of the most recent one, there have been others.
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by mason240 10y ago
I think these "attentive driver systems" like lane assist, auto braking, ect, are eventually going to get banned by the DOT because they seem to be causing people to over rely on them and drive distracted. They keep causing high p
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by mason240 10y ago
Freudian slip there.
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by mason240 10y ago
>Public corporations are already required to be sociopathic, given the legal requirement of profit False.
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by mason240 10y ago
The only causality of TMI was the atmosphere. The following fear-mongering lead to and effective halt in the expansion of nuclear power.
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by mason240 10y ago
We have had 6 and half decades now of successful operation in the US.
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by mason240 10y ago
It might be, but is still more practical. Both solar and wind also rely on mining, something environmentalists also oppose.
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by mason240 10y ago
Exactly, it's "leaderless" in the same sense that a class of high schoolers is "leaderless."
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by mason240 10y ago
Which is perfectly fine. They will be there forever and being encased in earth will preserve them. There's no reason to do a roughshod job exposing them.
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by mason240 10y ago
>It's nowhere near enough to meaningfully affect demand. That's because gas is inelastic. That doesn't mean a price increase wouldn't have a negative effect.
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In a capitalist society they are.
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by mason240 10y ago
I wouldn't call a 10-15% increase in the price of gas "little effect."
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A Powerful Election Weapon: The Use of the Russian Boogey Man
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by mason240 10y ago
I had a more cynical thought: maybe events like this will trigger security-state politicians to require backdoor access put into all wifi routers (which are then open for NSA/FBI/ect).
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by mason240 10y ago
Yes, exactly. In ASP.NET MVC land, our our general convention is to have a service layer that does all of the business logic, and the actual MVC web layer only handles UI concerns. In theory, you set your service layer (just a class assembl
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by mason240 10y ago
And in practice, "club room" is "classrooms all other spaces on campus."
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by mason240 10y ago
I dislike it because it's essentially privileged urbanites mocking working class rural people.
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That's because this is a non-issue.
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by mason240 10y ago
I have a 1 and 3 year old. Their naps never align.
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by mason240 10y ago
Because only women are involved with parenting, right?
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by mason240 10y ago
I have two small childern and thought the same thing. Bringing an infant/toddler around to meetings would be highly disruptive. I would prefer having a shorter workday where we can just efficiently get stuff done and then go home to th
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by mason240 10y ago
Walmart didn't have large presence in urban areas 20 years ago.
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Corporations are taxpayers, my friend.
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by mason240 10y ago
Are you suggesting we start charging people for police protection?
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by mason240 10y ago
Short term concerns. We will off of fossil fuels long before any ground based high speed transport between SF and LA can be built.
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by mason240 10y ago
It's the new Red Scare.

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